Jana's Genealogy and Family History Blog: December 2016

Friday, December 9, 2016

Follow Friday ~ Fab Finds for December 9, 2016

NOTE: Fab Finds will be on hiatus until January 6, 2017 for the Christmas and New Year's holidays. May each of you have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

My Fab Finds for this week are (in no particular order)

Make a Wish (List) at the Genealogy Blog Party! by Elizabeth O'Neal, author of Little Bytes of Life
Family History Blogging: What is Your Why? by Lynn Palermo, author of The Armchair Genealogist
Family Tree/ Christmas Tree by Colleen G. Brown Pasquale, author of Leaves & Branches
Genealogy Changed Dramatically in 2016. I Can Prove It. by Kerry Scott, author of Clue Wagon
Cloudy Night Rainwater--Really? by Michelle Ganus Taggart, author ASouthern Sleuth
Holiday Gifts to You -- Genealogy Style -- 15 Free and (Relatively) New Family History Resources -- Part 2 by Diane L. Richard for UpFront with NGS
Fantastic Find: United States Digital Map Library by Pat Hartley, author of Ancestry Island
#LIGHTtheWORLD with Family History by Jaycee Morrill for FamilySearch Blog
Find old Norwegian photos on the web by Martin Roe Eidhammer, author of Norwegian Genealogy and then some
I love Google!! by Lark Dalin Robart, author of Eight Roads to Montana
7 Things You Can Do in Less Than 30 Minutes by David Taylor, author of The Family Nexus
Remembering with Oral Histories AND Preserving War Correspondence and V-Mail by Melissa Barker, author of A Genealogist In The Archives
One is the Loneliest Number by Cheri Hudson Passey for Worldwide Genealogy ~ A Genealogical Collaboration
What You May Find in Government Papers and Journals by Dianne Nolin, author of Genealogy: Beyond the BMD
Can Your Own Memories Help Break Through Ancestral Brick Walls? by Jacqi Stevens, author of A Family Tapestry
The Cousins I Almost Never Knew by Sondra Bass Hawkins, author of Beyond the Branches
My Mennonite Ancestors and the Revolutionary War by Dana Leeds, author of The Enthusiastic Genealogist
Self-Publish Your Genealogy by Devon Noel Lee, author of A Patient Genealogist
Cruising on the SS Lurline - 1949 by Debi Austen, author of Who Knew?
How to Avoid Awkward Family Photos by Denise Levenick, author of The Family Curator

"May I Introduce To You" Interviews on GeneaBloggers.com

May I Introduce To You . . . On Holiday Vacation 2016

New Blog Discoveries

In Case You Missed It….My Contribution to the Blogosphere This Week

Jana's Genealogy and Family History Blog

Homer Horton Webster ~ He Deserves To Be Remembered

Thanks for reading!

Jana

© 2016 Copyright by Jana Last, All Rights Reserved

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Homer Horton Webster ~ He Deserves To Be Remembered

I recently received an email from a newly-discovered cousin on my Webster side. In her email, she mentioned that she had enjoyed looking through some of my blog posts. I really appreciate hearing that so much!

She had a couple of questions for me, one of which was about Homer Horton Webster, my 1st cousin 4 times removed. As I was looking at what I had on Homer, I did a little research on him on FamilySearch.org and found the following death record for him.¹

This death record shows a different date and place than what I had in my genealogy database. It also provides a cause of death for Homer.

Information gleaned from Homer's death record:

Number: 226
Name in Full: Webster, Homer
Date of Death: January 20, 1873
Condition: Single
Age: 19
Place of Death: Lebanon
Place of Birth: Lebanon
Color: White
Disease, Direct or Indirect Cause of Death: Heart Disease
Place of Residence: Lebanon Twp.
By Whom Reported: Assessor

Wow! Homer's cause of death was heart disease? At 19 years of age? That is so very sad.

In a previous post, I wrote about Homer's father, George Kinney Webster. In that post I shared that most of George's children, including Homer, passed away before they reached the age of about thirty. In fact, most died while they were in their twenties. Now that I have the cause of death for Homer, I'd like to do some research to try and find the causes of death for his siblings.

According to The History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut,² Homer never married, so he has no descendants to remember him. Homer deserves to be remembered, so we will remember him in this post.

I'm glad that my cousin emailed me and that it caused me to do more research about Homer Horton Webster. This is more proof that blogging about family history is beneficial. Cousin connections are awesome!

Have you made cousin connections because of your blog?

Thanks for stopping by!

Jana

© 2016 Copyright by Jana Iverson Last, All Rights Reserved

1 "Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : 30 September 2014), entry for Homer Webster, 1873, Meigs County, page 62; citing county courthouses, Ohio. ^↩
2 Webster, William Holcomb, and Melville Reuben Webster, D.D. "XXVI. "History and Genealogy of the Governor John Webster Family of Connecticut. Vol. 1. Rochester: E. R. Andrews Printing, NY., Homer Horton Webster, 1183. Print.^↩